exporting to a shape file with attributes problem

Greetings....I have created a feature definition file (fxl) in Trimble Business Center. I have uploaded it to my surveyors data collector. This fxl file only has 1 feature in it. "Manhole". Within this feature, I have created about 40 attributes referencing different data for the manhole inspection. When I import to TBC, I can select on a manhole point, right click and see the properties, which is the 40 attributes that the surveyor input. The problem comes when I try to export these points out to GIS Shape files. I am getting the feature name "manhole" but none of the attributes come with it. I did this previously with an earlier software (Trimble Office) and it exported the attributes with it. Any idea what might be going wrong here? I was hoping this would be an easy export. I'd be glad to email anyone some files to look at if it would help. Thanks for taking a look everyone!

I have a similar problem. When I export my shape files from TBC, with similar fxl, I get two .shp files one has the positioning and the other the attributes. For example, I export surveyed brass caps, that have associated attributes, my final product has two .shp files: Points.shp and Brass_Cap.shp. The Points.shp contains the positional information and the name; the Brass_CAP.shp has positional information and the attributes.

I have been using the latter (Brass_CAP), but I don't understand why there are multiple files. I frequently have to weed out some of these files, they confuse my end GIS user. Any ideas?

That is interesting, all of the versions of TBC I have used, for sometime, have produced both files. I assume, from what you wrote, you are processing the feature codes, and that is not the reason they are missing; other than that I can't think of a reason why they would only produce the points.shp.

Initially I was having the identical problem to yours. I found this in the knowledge center - it helped me and I was able to export manhole points with all of the attributes into a file geodatabase (I had to add a line into the TBC project per the export comment below).

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To include the attributes in the Geodatabase export, you must have Trimble Business Center Survey version 2.0 or HCE version 1.2 or higher installed. The FXL must be associated with the project and Points & Lines must be supported in this export.

Once you have imported the points & lines, execute the process feature codes.

After processing, select Advanced Select from the Select drop-down list.

Go to the Advanced Select menuChoose All Data from the Apply This Selection To: section

Change the Data Type to Point Feature from the Select sectionSelect All of this data type from the same section and hit OK.

From the File drop-down list, go to the Export option.

Select the GIS tab and then Geodatabase XML export.

In the Data section make sure that the number of items selected is shown in the Selected field (that is, as Selected: x, where x is the number of items selected).

In the File Name field, select the folder for the export location and file name and then tap Export.The attributes are included in the exported file.